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- South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have very mixed feelings about this motion. I am not from the south-coast area so I lack the sort of specific knowledge or guidance that would allow me to make a properly informed decision as to what I think about this motion. We all know we need to develop renewable energy and that offshore renewable energy will be an important part of that. We should also know, however, that the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did Simon Harris not say yesterday to the United States, "Stop arming a genocide. Stop giving weapons to people to commit genocide." Even now, the Tánaiste will not use the word "genocide". He will not say "They're committing genocide", even though the world is saying it and it is obvious they are committing it. The Tánaiste is still failing to distinguish between the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I said.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know it is, to muddy the waters.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: International law distinguishes between the oppressor and the oppressed.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any discussions with his US or Israeli counterparts about the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as a result of Israel's assault on Gaza, in the West Bank, and now in Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40657/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are signatories of the Genocide Convention; it is Irish law. That requires signatories not just to join legal cases but to take all action in its power to deter, prevent and obstruct the commission of a genocide. What is the Tánaiste doing in that regard? What has he said to the US Government or, for that matter, the Israeli Government, about the plausible commission of a genocide...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I framed the question about the Genocide Convention because I want to know what the character of the Tánaiste's intervention with the United States or Israel is. We have more or less got it, "Ah, we condemn this, we condemn that." A bit of this, a bit of that. I am trying to reframe this and say we are talking about genocide. We are signatories of the Genocide Convention. The...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But Israel will not even allow the UN Secretary-General into its country.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he has discussed with his counterparts in the US the ongoing provision of arms and weapons to Israel which are being used in what the International Court of Justice has called a “plausible genocide in Gaza”, in military raids in the West Bank and now in the Israeli military assault on Lebanon; and if he will make a...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because we are not going to get to the amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a gag that the Green Party is the cycling wing of Fine Gael. The manner in which this debate is being guillotined and the way in which the last few minutes have been taken up with the not-unimportant subject of cycle ways and active transport, which will preclude us from discussing amendments that deal with something that has a far greater impact on the climate crisis the Green...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the contrast between the priorities of the Green Party in this amendment-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know Deputy Matthews wants me to speak to the grouping of amendments because he did not want us to get to the other amendments. We will not get the chance-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because Deputy Matthews went along with the cynical guillotining of this Bill. This, therefore, is the last opportunity we have to speak on the really substantial amendments in this Bill. We will not get to discuss them properly. The Green Party has betrayed its promise in the programme for Government not to develop more fossil fuel infrastructure in this country that will lock us...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly; leniency has been given all night.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am drawing the contrasts in priorities between the Green Party’s Deputies-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----enthusiasm for this amendment-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while, at the same time, shielding themselves and the Government from justified scrutiny and criticism over a series of amendments we will never even get to discuss because this debate will be over in a few minutes. These amendments were never discussed by the Dáil at any stage and we are not going to get the opportunity to discuss them. They will do extreme damage to the...